"تقرير جديد عن الهند الشرقية وبلاد فارس، في ثمانِ رسائل. تتناول رحلات تسع سنوات، بدأت في ١٦٧٢ وانتهت في ١٦٨١. يحتوي التقرير على ملاحظات مأخوذة من أخلاق وطبيعة تلك البلاد وممتلكاتها الصناعية: تحديدًا، من حكوماتها ودينها وقوانينها وأعرافها. تقرير عن التربة والمناخ والمواسم والصحة والأمراض، وكذا الحيوانات والخضروات والمعادن والمجوهرات، إضافةً إلى المساكن والرداء والصناعات والتجارة والسلع، فضلًا عن العملات والموازين والمقاييس المستخدمة في الأماكن الأساسية للتجارة في تلك الأجزاء." [‎٢‎٢‎٤] (٥٠٦/٢٦٩)

Letter V,
The Enghjh
Trade more
in Shew than
Reality.
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Traveh into PERSIA.
The French
have nothing
to do.
The Stipio
difpatch'd for
India.
The cxcefllve
Heats.
landers being well afTured none could furnifh them with others ths
was brought by them. 311
The Englijh Company's Trade is but fmalJ here, only carrvina
off fome few Drugs, Car mania Wool, Goats, Dates, and Horfo
though they make it worth their while to keep their Agent in pooH
Port, as well from the Allowance from the Shawhmder, as by Co
fulage of i /. and 2 per Cent, for all Foreign Goods that feek their Pro"
tedion; on which fcore they feem to drive a Trade,and fend up everv
Shipping Three or Four hundred Camels laden with Indian Wares-
as many as the Dutch bringdown to Ship off on their own Stock and
Ships: But this Year a great Blufter was made with Enqlijh Cloth
and Tin brought by our Arrival; which, however, the underftand>
ing Traffickers fmile at, knowing it comes better Cheap by the
taphala s in Exchange of other Goods from Stamlole, i. e. Conjlajt
nopie Smrna, Scanderoon, and Aleppo and that is already
ovcr-tuilot London Cloath, or Sackcloath Londre, as they call it
The French have as little to do at this Port as in other Places • and
were it not for the Credit of their Interpreter, who gets good Profit
by Wine, ( he being priviledg'd with a Wine-prefs for that Nation a
v raS \T 7 aS f he 0t ^ er Nylons), they could not fubfift-
But Monfieur makes arf outfide. lives retiredly, and without more
Bufinefs than to vifit and be vifited ( which Courtefy paffes inter-
changeably among the Chriftians as well as Natives ) lounges his
time away.
The convenient Situation of our Fadory Butting fartheft out on
the open Strand, yields a Profpedl over the Sea to the Arahtan Coafl
and on a dear day Ormus CalUe might be difcovered by the naked
tye, it being not above a League from our Houfe, as all the Iflands
interfperfed in this Gulph; though the moft diverting was of out
Europe Sailors mounting their Start! or AfTes, the briskeft neateft
the- "m li -J r k r d 1 ever fa w; fo that they feemed'both by
tluir Mettle and eafinefs of their going, tolofe the Epithet of A
affixed to their Nature: For their Mafters waiting here their Fare,
o (ooner had left them to the Guidance of the Seamen who
caft" the P m 0 on th e Ridi, ?g' where many times they would
m -i r u • ^ Sand ' 1)01,110 the Sport of the Standers-by, and
fouared fnrTh r'H'r!/ '"u" 8 thein kn0W 3 Yard was more
th ti f tl " r r. CaVa . lc ade' than thefe Headftrong Creatures:
Som^ Pl S Di r r aff ? rded frorn the Seamen on their ao
Foot^ on T 6 ". 1 ' I arequ,t ' ^ hen thefe Affesforfake their furer
tZted for^ P M ^ 0a L rd Shi P; «hich was often at-
Slin i ^ 9" tfide of the beautiful •fr'M where the
as woufd vpnn t f e / - v 7 n0r and 811 his Train . and as many
ne^ Tlll oH 0 1 y the Laughter of theRoguy Mati-
Coaft h .r n. h'f 1 J K 0f c^' ,6 77- tt returned to. the
Exceflke H p I^ 'T t ' 5e < Sa,Iers had ftigmatized this Place its
is nofhalf f-o ea h k n 1 trUth ' When t! I e ra S' n ? Dog-ftar reigns with us, it
U^Iltv L aS " '^nowherej wherefore all People of any
are P re P arin g to leave this Place; and the Caul had been
gone